Posts Tagged: travel
Help Vela Celebrate Unsung Women Writers!
It’s rare for female writers to receive recognition when it’s due.
In light of International Women’s Day, Vela Magazine is collecting suggestions for its “Great Nonfiction by Women” List.
...moreWe want to know which women writers you like “best,” who you think belongs on those reading lists and what works you wish got more attention.
A Different Kind of Travel Writing
Round Trip
There was so much love in his body, and though he lost his shape, lost so much weight, near the end of his life, he still cried when he watched the Bulgarian Olympians march down the Athens stadium, cried when Bulgarian music came on the international radio.
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The Rumpus Interview with Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy, likely best known to you as a member of the iconic Brat Pack, with his roles in Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, has forged a second career as a travel writer. Out with a new memoir, The Longest Way Home, about traveling as a way to settle down, McCarthy touches on issues of fatherhood and commitment.
...moreKamehameha the Great
I used to think that I couldn’t lose anyone if I photographed them enough.
—Nan Goldin
Travelling With Tintin
Although I didn’t read them as a kid, I love the idea that Tintin comics, in the era before television, could act as travelogues for people curious about the world — and that they were pretty accurate, most of the time, in their visual depictions of other places and cultures.
...moreBooks For The Summer Travel Itch
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination.
Yesterday a woman bought a Russian phrase book. I told her that I heard a Starbucks cappuccino costs fifteen U.S.
...moreThe Bigness of the World
Lori Ostlund masters the sadness of breakups, the empty inevitability of doors closing: “For at each turn, the people we hold close elude us.”
...morePaul Bowles, Travel and the Non-Christian World
“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his daily living, have a way of losing their meaning, and take on the qualities of decoration.
...moreBait and Switch
Like a well-planned itinerary, the blueprints of James Lasdun’s stories are thoughtfully delineated, and each step feels purposeful and sure.
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Travel As A Political Act
Rick Steves’s recent book, Travel As A Political Act tells us how we can travel more thoughtfully.
“Growing up in the U.S., I was told over and over how smart, generous, and free we were. Travel has taught me that the vast majority of humanity is raised with a different view of America.
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